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among many reasons: it doesn't make any political sense for russia to try and take kiev, putin has made it pretty clear that he's open to diplomacy, american military-industrial complex has a lot to gain with conflict in region after afghanistan withdrawl
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yeah it's a bit odd. my guess is that either they end up giving support to donbas or this is a ploy for some sort of finlandization of ukraine/some sort of promise for them to not join nato but who knows
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